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<big>Arjun Chakravarthi Pogaku is a Master's graduate from Asia University Taiwan and alumni of Madanapalle Institute of technology and science. He became a part of UIF Cohort in Spring 2018.</big>
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Arjun Pogaku is an Assistant Professor in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at MITS. He is a doctoral candidate from Asia University, Taiwan and also a UI Fellow from MITS Spring 2018 Cohort. He organized various activities and workshops related to design thinking along with his faculty champions and other UI fellows. The team took up an initiative to introduce Design Thinking as an open elective course at the institution for post-grad students. Being an experienced UI Fellow and a responsible Professor, he is the course instructor of DT. Apart from this, he is a dedicated research fellow, having expertise in wireless communications, focussed on a new-gen device called Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces. At present, he completed 2 years of his doctoral program and published 5 journal articles.
  
<big>At the beginning, Arjun was an introvert. But things began to change when he met few people who inspired him to take his journey globally. With a lot of hard work, Arjun completed his training for his fellowship. He made memorable changes at his home university with the help of his faculty champion and his student cohort.</big>
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<big>His team was able to bring exposure to many students in the college about the learnings regarding the opportunities around the globe. Conducted Design Thinking workshops for almost 300 students in the span of 6 months. They also trained another group of students for the next fellowship program. They were able to introduce Design thinking into the university curriculum. They created a special UIF blog for ourselves to share the fellows latest achievements in the college. And also collaborated with the innovation cell to encourage the talented students with the technological projects.</big>
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* Ministry of Education (MoE) Scholarship for Ph.D. by Ministry of Education,
 
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* Taiwan. Top Class Academic Performance, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Taiwan.
<big>Meanwhile, Arjun has also started to spread his wings to the outer world. He became a part of the Asia Pacific Innovation Academy as a Student Entrepreneur in Shenzhen, China. After finishing his program at Shenzhen, he started to work as a Virtual Intern as Blog Editor at Shenzhen Blog, China. This experience has improved his language skills and he was able to crack IELTS with a score of 7.5 in 2018.</big>
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* University Innovation Fellowship (UIF), Stanford University, USA. Spring-2018 Cohort
 
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* Asia Pacific Innovation Academy Delegate, Shenzhen University, China.
<big>In early 2019, he was selected as a student intern for a research project at Asia University for a tenure of 2 months. His internship helped him to attain a masters degree program with a scholarship. At present he published a research paper on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, an young research topic in the field of Wireless Communications. He will be graduating in Mid 2021. He has plans to continue his research later on.</big>
 

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Arjun Chakravarthi Pogaku

Arjun Pogaku is an Assistant Professor in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at MITS. He is a doctoral candidate from Asia University, Taiwan and also a UI Fellow from MITS Spring 2018 Cohort. He organized various activities and workshops related to design thinking along with his faculty champions and other UI fellows. The team took up an initiative to introduce Design Thinking as an open elective course at the institution for post-grad students. Being an experienced UI Fellow and a responsible Professor, he is the course instructor of DT. Apart from this, he is a dedicated research fellow, having expertise in wireless communications, focussed on a new-gen device called Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces. At present, he completed 2 years of his doctoral program and published 5 journal articles.

Awards and recognitions:[edit | edit source]

  • Ministry of Education (MoE) Scholarship for Ph.D. by Ministry of Education,
  • Taiwan. Top Class Academic Performance, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Taiwan.
  • University Innovation Fellowship (UIF), Stanford University, USA. Spring-2018 Cohort
  • Asia Pacific Innovation Academy Delegate, Shenzhen University, China.